Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Allowing Greatness Into Your Life

When is "Good Enough" Not Enough?

“Good vs. Great” is a phrase coined by life coach, Cheryl Richardson, in her book “Life Makeovers”. She describes the choices that people make when they settle for “good enough” instead of holding out for “great” in their lives.

For many of us, good enough is just that—after all, who are we to expect, or even ask, for more? Many of us have been raised with negative associations when it comes to asking for what we want, or have faced disappointment for wanting and expecting more...and then not getting it. It only seems logical then, that staying in the realm of good enough is safe—we get close enough to what we want without any risk of being disappointed because we haven't invested or gone out on a limb to shoot for more.

But, what if we started off this year by imagining something different? What would our lives look like if we only accepted great? What if, in the game of blackjack, a “17” was no longer good enough and instead you wanted a “21”? Take a moment to list the following areas of your life (and any others you may want to include): career/work, finances, romantic relationships, friendships, family, spirituality, and health. On a scale of 21, what number do you rate each area in terms of satisfaction and fulfillment? Do you have “21s” across the board? In which particular areas are you settling for less? And, are you okay with how you see your life?

Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui has said, “the greatest obstacles come from within, not from outside.” Obstacles to great may come in all forms and flavors. Lack of self-worth—truly believing you deserve to have the best; guilt about having a great, easy life when others around you may not; difficulty receiving (it's easy for you to give, give, give, but difficult to allow others to give back to you).

With Pranic Healing, it IS possible to have easier, happier, richer lives in all areas—21s across the board, GREAT instead of good enough. By changing and energizing your intentions, by removing and disintegrating the obstacles, you create room for your new, positive, better lives to materialize!

Pick an area of your life where you want a “21”, where you want greatness. Write out what you want for this area of your life—even your wildest dreams. What does a “21” look like for this part of your life? Create your list with the end-goal in mind, i.e., what DO you want, as opposed to all the things you DO NOT want. Once you've completed this list, one a separate piece of paper, list out all the things that you feel prevent you from having this life that you've just described. List all the feelings, thoughts, doubts, emotions, internal self-talk, and people who are more comfortable with you as you are. This is your private list, so be as thorough as you can about all the reasons why you think you can't have the life you just described.

For those students who have taken Pranic Psychotherapy, Kriyashakti or Arhatic Yoga, use the Whiteboard or Blue Triangle techniques to disintegrate and remove the obstacles on your list. Thought forms, obstacles, emotions – these all have energy behind them. By disintegrating and removing these obstacles, you remove the energy that attract that which you no longer choose to have in your life. If you have not taken these classes, a simple invocation will work as well. For example,

To the Supreme God (or to whomever you pray), Divine Mother, Divine Father, to all the Great Ones, to all the Holy Angels, Archangles, Spiritual Helpers, Teachers and Beings of Light...to Our Souls, to our Divine Selves:

We humbly invoke and thank you for gently and mercifully disintegrating and removing all of these obstacles from our lives. Thank you for the Divine Purification and Healing in all areas of our lives.

In Full Faith and with Thanks, Amen.”

Once you have cleared the obstacles, energize the brand new life that you've described for yourself using the Materialization techniques in Kriyashakti. Through this practice, you are creating the energy that attracts what it is that you DO want. A simple invocation for your goals could be:

To the Supreme God (or to whomever you pray), Divine Mother, Divine Father, to all the Great Ones, to all the Holy Angels, Archangles, Spiritual Helpers, Teachers and Beings of Light...to Our Souls, to our Divine Selves:

We humbly invoke and thank you for my brand new life of...[list the characteristics and things you have described in your new life, e.g., divine happiness, divine self-confidence, divine trust and faith, etc.]

In Full Faith and with Thanks, Amen”

Continue this practice every day for 30 days, and then move on to the next area of your life that you want to change to GREAT.

Pranic Healing Northern California, in affiliation with U.S. Pranic Healing Center | pranichealing.ncalif@gmail.com



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Empower Yourself - Allowing Anger to be Your Guide

Anger is often a misunderstood emotion—something that tends to be correlated with negative connotations, harm and violence. For many of us, it is one of the emotions that carries a power and force behind it that can be intimidating and frightening.

In Pranic Healing, we learn that all emotions and feelings are simply energies with different vibrational frequencies. Likewise, as we play and experiment in classes, we see that energies can be disintegrated, transformed and transmuted into higher-frequency energies. The most salient example of this is the Meditation on Twin Hearts—a meditation that not only brings tremendous blessings to the entire Earth, but also transforms and transmutes energies into love, happiness and inner peace. Have you noticed how easy it is to let go of the stresses and worries of the days after you've practiced Meditation on Twin Hearts?

What does this have to do with anger, you might wonder? Anger can actually be a positive, healthy emotion that helps to empower and make our lives better. Anger is a signal, a communication from your higher soul that lets you know when the actions or behaviors of another oversteps what is acceptable to you and your boundaries. Think back to some of the times that you have been angry; what do you see when you look beyond the situation, words, actions that took place? Did you have feelings of discomfort? Did you see something happening that was not okay with you?

Embracing anger and using it in a positive, healthy was is nothing to feel guilty or ashamed of. Wrong-doing or transgressions can be as obvious as someone betraying your trust, to something more subtle like always being the one to go pick up the lunch every time there is a team meeting. The emotion of anger helps you identify when you feel like a boundary is being violated or when your own needs are not being met. How lucky are we that we have such a salient, helpful signal to tell us when our divinity is not receiving the respect or treatment we would like it to have?!

Healthy expression and releasing of anger is another aspect of using anger in a positive way. Begin by simply turning your awareness inward throughout the day and notice what things trigger the emotion of anger. It doesn't need to be anger in the full-blown, screaming, raging aspect. Even something as simple as being irritated is a dimension of the emotion of anger. Take note as to when you feel these emotions and identify what it is about the situation that is causing the emotions to arise. Are you feeling angry because you are always giving to others but not receiving the same courtesy? Are you irritated because a co-worker is draining your energy by always complaining about your boss? Is the baby-sitter demonstrating a lack of respect for your time by always showing up 15 minutes late thereby throwing your schedule off? There are so many dimensions to anger; it's not just the scary violence we see in movies and read about in newspapers.

Change the situation with Right Thought, Right Speech and Right Actions. This is one of the most empowering ways to release and use anger to benefit yourself. Being angry does not mean one needs to be nasty or violent. Anger can be channeled into setting clear expectations and boundaries about what will/will not work for you, and then can be the fuel you need to reinforce those expectations and boundaries when they are not being met. While it may seem intimidating for those who are conflict-adverse, Right Thought/Right Speech/Right Action provide you with the ability to disentangle from the emotions and to express yourself clearly without necessarily engaging in conflict. It is amazing how people will respond to pleasant but firm statements about your expectations or needs!

Bless with love and cut the cords. Love has the power to transform and transmute. Bless the situation, bless the person or people involved who have done something to cause your emotions to be angry. Bless and the cut the cords. Let love and God take over and give the people/situation what they need. It is not your responsibility to fix those involved in your situation. Your responsibility lies with staying true to yourself and empowering yourself by standing up for what your soul needs and wants—by giving your soul the right environment to focus on its Divine Purpose and Divine Work here on Earth. Let love and Got take care of those who are at the cause of your anger. Let anger be your guide along your path to Divine Purpose.

The purpose of this article is to discuss anger as a general emotion in everyday interactions and situations around us. If you are in a situation where your safety is at risk, where there is abuse, violence or other harmful actions taking place, please reach out and seek help—through the local authorities, a trusted spiritual minister or counselor, or many of the local and national hot lines and organizations that are set up and trained to provide the right and proper assistance. Please do not ever think or feel that this type of behavior is justified or deserved.

Pranic Healing Northern California, in affiliation with U.S. Pranic Healing Center | pranichealing.ncalif@gmail.com



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